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Example sentences of "[vb infin] [verb] [pron] in [det] [noun sg] " in BNC.

No	Sentence
1	‘ I should think Dane will enjoy embracing me in this outfit , do n't you ? ’
2	Now somehow I want you to break out of that and to , as I say , shout it from the rooftops , because in the end , the public applause from that will protect you from those who might seek to neuter you in that role .
3	Now I do n't want to embarrass them in any way .
4	She thought she would never dare touch anything in this house in case she left marks .
5	I would now like to ask everyone in this room to stand with me , and raise their glasses .
6	Presumably the library should at least have highlighted it in some way such as printing it in red , on the front of the delivery note , perhaps with a large red hand pointing to it .
7	Since h(n) is not known during the search we can try to estimate it in some way .
8	Mary-Rose Caden , a smoker and teachers ' representative on Lothian education committee , forecast it may be impracticable : ‘ If it 's a complete ban , then they 'll have to police it in some way .
9	His defence lawyer says the case is unique in French law in that the court accepted Kim might have stabbed herself in this way .
10	Frederica said obviously that the sky and the sea and the boats were uncannily like Van Gogh , and Hodgkiss said that of course they would never have seen them in this way before he saw them .
11	Something of that strange that strangeness and that irony lies behind the famous claim ‘ I will try to express myself in some mode of life for art as freely as I can and as wholly as I can , using for my defence the only arms I allow myself to use — silence , exile and cunning .
12	‘ Why would you have told me in any case ?
13	Do not attempt to organise them in any type of pattern other than under the major heading of asset or liability .
14	In such a case the plaintiff could recover the extra cost of the special equipment , but could not recover the basic cost of the car if he would have needed one in any event .
15	Oh no he would n't have had me in any case .
16	‘ You could have had anything in that bottle . ’
17	The Chancellor of the Exchequer , Kenneth Clarke tells the programme how she once asked : ‘ Why do I have to do everything in this Government ? ’ and no-one had the nerve to give her the obvious answer — she did n't have to do everything .
18	I may have sent it quicker over the goal line with this touch , but I think it would have reached it in any case . ’
19	‘ Now Jane , ’ turning to me , ‘ I 'll have to leave you in this room with Mason while I fetch the doctor .
20	Had that proposal been acted on , McKusick , CSRG senior programmer and past president of Usenix , would have found himself in another conflict of interests since he is believed to be a secret a director of BSDI .
21	If she 'd stayed in a fit state then she would n't have found herself in this situation now .
22	This meant that loyalty forbade her to tell Philip — who would n't have believed her in any case .
23	But whalers could have enlightened them in this respect , for they knew that whales possessed acute hearing , the constant ‘ twittering ’ of the White whale even earning it the name of the sea canary .
24	My father would have put it in another way : ‘ Zol zey alamin chappen a cholera . ’
25	I thought he must have left it in that place round the point , Halfway House .
26	The Lord Chancellor , Lord Mackay , said it was regrettable that the judge should have expressed himself in this way .
27	When she then kills the prey , it is impossible to prove that she does so to demonstrate the act of killing , because she would have killed it in any case , in order to eat it .
28	When the engines were going , the propellers could have blown something in that direction . ’
29	So I must have failed him in some way , to make him not like me , as well as him failing me .
30	Thus if they are consistently defined as disreputable or respectable , servile or arrogant , they will tend to see themselves in this light and act accordingly .